Timeless classic in elegant design. One of the best studies ever.
Marcin Kania
1 месяц назад
Do you respect Kasparyan? His commentary in the book differs from the one here. There was added the crucial word «stalemate» at the end of the commentary, along with the move 9… Ne4. It changes the image of this study.
Rusinek in his book ends the solution of his study with «9…Ne4 pat z zamurowanym dorobionym gońcem i związaną dorobioną wieżą». Kasparyan ends it with «9.Rb7 and inevitable stalemate» which is not true because Black can avoid it, for example by taking the rook.
It seems Kasparyan didn’t like the stalemate-ending move 9… Ne4. Why not 9… Ke7 (dual ?)?
9… Ne4 would make sense if there were a logical try 5… Bf1? 6. b8=Q Ba6+ 7. Qb7 8. Ne4 8. Qxa6 Nd6+ 9. Qxd6
But then you can also 6. b8=N, and unfortunately, the thematic 6. b8=R, which shows that 5… Ne5 is just a simple knight repositioning (to avoid duals) without any depth. This was reported by Marek Kwiatkowski on Problemista.eu.
Timeless classic in elegant design. One of the best studies ever.
Do you respect Kasparyan? His commentary in the book differs from the one here. There was added the crucial word «stalemate» at the end of the commentary, along with the move 9… Ne4. It changes the image of this study.
Rusinek in his book ends the solution of his study with «9…Ne4 pat z zamurowanym dorobionym gońcem i związaną dorobioną wieżą». Kasparyan ends it with «9.Rb7 and inevitable stalemate» which is not true because Black can avoid it, for example by taking the rook.
It seems Kasparyan didn’t like the stalemate-ending move 9… Ne4. Why not 9… Ke7 (dual ?)?
9… Ne4 would make sense if there were a logical try 5… Bf1? 6. b8=Q Ba6+ 7. Qb7 8. Ne4 8. Qxa6 Nd6+ 9. Qxd6
But then you can also 6. b8=N, and unfortunately, the thematic 6. b8=R, which shows that 5… Ne5 is just a simple knight repositioning (to avoid duals) without any depth. This was reported by Marek Kwiatkowski on Problemista.eu.